Bishop Michael Ingham Consults Rowan Williams about the Vacancy at Saint John’s, Shaughnessy

Posted by Kendall Harmon

From here:
Bishop Michael had two conversations with Archbishop Rowan who was well aware of the diocese’s situation regarding recent court decisions. Bishop Michael asked him if he would consider casting his eye around the communion for a possible interim appointment for St John’s, Shaughnessy. Archbishop Rowan said that he would and when he bid Bishop Michael farewell he told him that “thoughts were forming.” Since then, he has been very busy preparing for his African trip. Bishop Michael has followed up on the conversation with a letter.


Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Archbishop of Canterbury • Anglican Provinces • Anglican Church of Canada • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Ministry of the Ordained

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Posted October 17, 2011 at 5:48 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. Ralph wrote:

Perhaps ++++Rowan himself would be the perfect interim.

I wonder what their average Sunday attendance is these days.

October 17, 9:35 am | [comment link]
2. justice1 wrote:

Bishop Michael’s practice has been to find traditional clergy with a “high ecclesiology” or who wonder how they would feed their families without an Anglican Church of Canada parish, or who have personality conflicts with network leadership, or who have moved far enough to the left to not really know why it matters anymore, to fill these posts, in hopes of retaining lay folk who love their building or who are “inclusive” within parishes like St. John’s.  But this sort of thing will never replicate what decades of hard Gospel work produced there.  Sadly, there is someone out there willing to take the pulpit in which some of the giants of the modern evangelical church have preached, and become a political pawn for a self-described sophisticated pluralist and heretic, in a parish where countless folks have given time, talent and treasure to actually obey the Great Commission and make disciples of Jesus Christ.

October 17, 9:35 am | [comment link]
3. Statmann wrote:

In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king.  Statmann

October 17, 5:05 pm | [comment link]
4. iAnglican wrote:

27…that’s the new average Sunday attendance…over two services.
St. John’s Vancouver new location   802.

October 17, 5:37 pm | [comment link]
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